Comments on: Please Hire Our Heroes Even If They’re a Little Muddled

By: Heidi

Heidi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:00:44 +0000

I am sickened but not for the same reason Susan is. This is how our govt treats the returning veterans…a website that explains how to respond to them in the workplace, but not actually giving them the medical care they need, in fact avoiding the more costly diagnoses entirely.

I see two reasons why they aren’t as revered as Susan asks. 1. If we had official public displays, then the wider public would have more reminders of the real toll this illegal war is taking. and 2. We don’t do things publicly in the same way as they did in the 40s. The public arena is played out on TV, and thus is rather twisted and impersonal.

By: Gulley Jimson

Gulley Jimson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:21:29 +0000

Looks like it’s the government shirking it’s duty, yet again, to take care of its own. They willingly enlisted and in return got the boot into the ‘real’ world. Is it up to the private sector to take care of citizens used and abused by this government? America is here to help but is the government? Shameful, yet again.

By: susan

susan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:53:11 +0000

This sickens me.

My father went into WW II at the tail end of the war. He was stationed in Germany and liberated a camp. Not an easy thing for an 18 year old boy who had never been out of Brooklyn in his whole entire life. And was Jewish.

When he came back home, he attended Rutgers with the GI Bill.

Now when he watches the evening news he gets upset with our boys and girls coming home. Not the ones in boxes- (that upsets him but that is a different story) but the ones coming home broken and in pieces. He is mad because no one seems to be helping them once they get out of hospitals. He is mad because of the suicide rate is so high among them. He is mad because they and those who served in Vietnam don’t get parades like he did, or the pride that people had in him for serving.

What happened since my dad’s generation, and my generation that we don’t revere those who put their lives on the line for us so we can help others live in a world in peace and democracy?